Mark Warnecke

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Medal record
Men's Swimming
Competitor for Image:Flag of Germany.svg Germany
Olympic Games
Bronze	1996 Atlanta	100m Breaststroke
World Championships
Gold	2005 Montreal^[1]	50m Breaststroke
World Championsips (SC)
Gold	1995 Rio de Janeiro	100m Breaststroke
Gold	2000 Athens^[2]	50m Breaststroke
European Championships (LC)
Gold	1999 Istanbul	50m Breaststroke
Gold	2000 Helsinki	50m Breaststroke
Silver	1999 Istanbul	100m Breaststroke
Silver	1999 Istanbul	4x100m Medley
Bronze	1995 Vienna	4x100m Medley

Mark Warnecke (born February 15, 1970 in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia). is a breaststroke swimmer from Germany who, at age 35, won the world title in the 50m Breaststroke at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, Canada. That made him the oldest swimming world champion since 1971.He started for the German swimming club SG Essen.

He competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea, where he was a member of the 4x100 m medley relay team, that finished in fourth position. Eight years later he won the bronze medal in the 100 m breaststroke, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.